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I am a Systems Engineer with many years of experience in electronic systems, including communication systems, network systems, and radar systems, with a focus on signal processing and architecture. "Know your customer and his/her needs." My hobbies include photography, yachting, software development, writing, and foreign languages.
If you don't know what to do with your spare time, go walk your dog. If you don't have a dog, walk someone else's dog. It's a better way for you to spend your time than what you are doing right now. If you think you don't have any spare time, then you probably don't have a dog.
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Apr 23 |
answered | Single word for “unqualified truth” |
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Apr 19 |
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Word for 45° rotated Sometimes you have to define acronyms and abbreviations. It doesn't take a sophisticated reader to know (or expect) that an unfamiliar term is defined somewhere in a paper. Use whatever term you want, define it, and go from there. If you are really concerned that readers need to know something in order to understand the rest of your document, you should organize it so they can easily find the introductory material. Maybe in a section called "Introduction" or something... |
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Apr 19 |
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Literally vs. figuratively: how literally is literally? The author is right. Consider Project Orion (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)). He probably know nothing about it though. |
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Apr 19 |
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Antonym of coercive emphasized the examples are at the links |
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Apr 18 |
answered | Antonym of coercive |
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Apr 15 |
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“at all the vertices”, what does this mean? +1 You nailed it. "At all (of)" in this example is part of a preposition and means "at each of". It has nothing to do with "in the slightest", "to any extent", or "whatever". If you assume otherwise, then the determiner "the vertices" would be out of place as it is written. "Non-negative" is a precise mathematical expression, as you said, meaning "zero or positive". |
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Apr 13 |
awarded | Enthusiast |
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Apr 8 |
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Is there a noun for a used credit token? "Redeemed" applies to credit tokens that have been exchanged for something. But that is an adjective. |
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Apr 7 |
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A noun to describe character sequences between words Do you want an adjective or a noun? "Words", "prefixes", and "suffixes" are nouns. Are you looking for a corresponding noun? If so, you should change the subject of your question. |
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Apr 6 |
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Looking for words similar to “lagging” and “ahead of” They are simply called "out of order packets". If you get a packet that has already been received, it's a "redundant packet". See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_packet for more information. A nework that cannot guarantee services is called "unreliable". Transport layer protocols correct for this. |
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Apr 6 |
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“Dead on arrival” Twitter would be atypical of common usage for acronyms and abbreviations. Its 140 character limitation virtually guarantees that users will employ textspeak in their messages, regardless of how widely used the terms might be used outside of the SMS and twitter services. |
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Apr 5 |
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“Dead on arrival” added 341 characters in body |
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Apr 5 |
answered | “Dead on arrival” |
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Apr 5 |
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Word meaning “narrow minded person” that ends in “an” if such exists added 677 characters in body |
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Apr 5 |
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Word meaning “narrow minded person” that ends in “an” if such exists And I thought everyone not only carefully reads every word I write, but also the words that are between the lines. |
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Apr 5 |
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Proverb/Idiom for Free from certain problems only to get trapped into other? +1 to FF. I agree this phrase would be most recognized as having the same meaning as your (OP's) example -- unless you distinguish between "free from" (as in your example) and "freed from". I might say I am free from tyranny, but that is a frying pan I have never been in, so I can't jump out of it. But someone from Elbonia might claim to have been freed from tyranny, only find themselves in other difficulty somewhere else. The OP would have to clarify this, as it's a fine distinction to make. |
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Apr 5 |
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Word meaning “narrow minded person” that ends in “an” if such exists added 658 characters in body |
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Apr 5 |
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Word meaning “narrow minded person” that ends in “an” if such exists added 4 characters in body |
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Apr 5 |
answered | Word meaning “narrow minded person” that ends in “an” if such exists |
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Apr 5 |
answered | “Choices” vs. “options” |
